An inspiring story of one of the leading educators of the 1950s, a reading of Rosemond Tuve is a reflection on education and rewards of the life of the mind.

Rosemond Tuve was a professor of Renaissance Literature at Connecticut College in the 1950s and 1960s. The first visiting female professor to Harvard and to Yale, she was also invited to European universities. She believed that education was a series of transformative experiences and she had a profound impact on all who knew her.

(PRWEB) February 5, 2004 --This is the biography of Rosemond Tuve, a remarkable woman scholar, who began life on the prairies of South Dakota and rose to honor and acclaim in the US and abroad. Professor Roz" Tuve believed passionately in the power of education to transform the lives of men and women. Her story is told mainly in her own compelling voice through personal letters, diaries, and lectures that are witty, profound, and eminently readable.

Tuve was an internationally recognized Renaissance scholar, lecturing extensively in the US, France and Germany throughout her lifetime. A tenured professor at Connecticut College, she was the first visiting professor to Harvard University in 1958, and to Princeton University in 1961. She received a Fulbright fellowship in 1957, and received a NATO fellowship in 1960 to Aarhus University in Denmark. Rosemond Tuve is listed as one of four scholars in Notable American Women.

Distributed by University Press of New England at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, published by Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth New Hampshire.
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